Renja

Renja

Race: Bakeneko Hengeyokai, Class: Ranger 6 Background: Far Traveler, Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Patron Deity: BWUHAHAHAHA Factions:

Ability Scores

Strength 12 (+1), Dexterity 16 (+3), Constitution 10; Intelligence 14 (+2), Wisdom 14 (+2), Charisma 10

Proficiencies

Bonus: +3 Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity Skills: Insight (Wis), Perception (Wis), Acrobatics (Dex), Survival (Wis), Stealth (Dex), Investigation (Int) Tools: Go, Woodcarving Languages: Common, Wa-an, The Trade Tongue, Alzhedo, Aquan Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons

Traits

Change Form, Favored Enemy Humanoids, Natural Explorer, Archery Fighting Style, Primeval Awareness, Hunter's Prey Horde Breaker, Extra Attack, Spellcasting, Greater Favored Enemy Elementals

Feats

Sharpshooter

Combat

Attacks: Armor Class: 15, Initiative: +3, Speed: 30 Hit Points: 49, Hit Dice: 6D10

Social

Personality Traits: Finds the idea of cooking meat offensive. Never feels like he fully fits in, as a human or feline. Romanticizes Wa and Kara-Tur. Ideals: Adventure! Life is a grand adventure that must be experienced! Bonds: Renja will fiercely protect the other cats on the ship, considering them more of a family than the humanoids on the ship. Flaws: Renja thinks the idea of worshiping gods or spirits to be foolish and has mild contempt for religion.

Background

Renja (not his real name or course, these barbaric westerners would mangle it with their clumsy tongues(Ryuunosuke 隆之介)) did not come aboard the ship voluntarily, he was in fact abducted. Whisked away from his family, torn the country he loved, wronged by the oafish westerners. At the tender age of 6 months he was fully aware that he was a Hengeyokai. More specifically he knew his lineage as a Bakeneko. As he was not a full year grown yet, he had an advantage over older Bakeneko in that he did not display any of the traits that marked his people as different yet, unfortunately that also meant he could not shift out of his animal form yet either. On the most unfortunate day that he was abducted and impressed into service as a ship's cat, he had decided to explore the docks of Uwaji with a few kittens, blending in with the locals and such. Unaware of the barbaric custom of snatching up poor unsuspecting kittens and forcing them to live on boats, he was unprepared when he and a few of the other kittens were swooped up by the malformed tengu (Skeksil) and carried off to his ship.
The next six months of his life were both the most frustrating and exciting. While he was stuck as a cat and unable to get home, he was also more intelligent than most of the sailors on board and could get away with much more than your average ship cat. People say things in front of animals they are careful not to say in front of other people. And it's easier to steal from the cook when you can hide your tracks. Renja gradually picked up Common and the Trade Tongue by listening and observing, as well as a few other languages he keeps secret from the crew.
Finally the day came that he reached full maturity and transformed into a fully grown Bakeneko. It was a glorious day! Finally he could do something about his plight! He tried to keep it a secret for as long as he could, but he was not experience enough with shifting yet to maintain his cat form for more than a few hours at a time, and eventually he was caught, he was in the middle of bringing some freshly swiped fish to the other cats when he reverted back to his natural form. The captain thought he was a stow-away at first and was getting ready to toss him overboard when the ship's cats came to his rescue. Crowding around him, hissing and clawing at everyone who tried to get close. This odd behaviour started the crew and it gave Renja a chance to regain his sensibilities and he was able to somewhat explain his presence. He had to point out that one of the ship cats was missing before the captain began to believe him, and after he had rested (under guard, in a locked hold, with ruined fish) he was able to shift into his cat form so that the captain would believe him.
During his time as a cat, he had done his "job" of hunting and stalking rats and other vermin, if for no other reason than to keep his instincts honed. After his first shift he continued to hunt prey, but much larger prey. The only other thing to hunt on a ship besides vermin, is humans and their kind though. That didn't stop Renja. It was not unheard of for a crewman to be going about their work and suddenly hear Renja's voice whispering in their ear "Careless". One time, when the ship had taken on passengers, his game was observed by a Harper bowman who saw how Renja hunted and stalked his prey, but never killed them and saw the potential to be a bounty hunter and protector in Renja. He showed Renja a few tricks and how to use a bow. By the time the ship had reached it's destination, Renja had found a new calling.
Renja stays with the ship in the hopes that it will some day return him to Kara-Tur and to his people, but in the mean time he has kittens to defend and adventures to have.

Description

Age: 4

• Human
  Height: 5'10"
  Weight: 185 lbs.
  Physical Description: Average height and wiry muscled. In his human form Renja looks like an adult human from the country of Wa, with a couple notable exceptions. First off, his hair is silver gray with streaks of black in it. At first glance his green eyes appear to be cat-like, but they do not have the same iris shape as a cat.
• Hybrid
  Height: 5'11"
  Weight: 195 lbs.
  Physical Description: Average adult height human covered in silvery gray fur striped like a Bengal cat. His muscles no longer appear wiry, but have the sleekness and power of a large cat. He still looks very much human in build, except he now has a feline face and head. His fingertips are darker than his fingers, and his nails are harder and seem to come to a blunt point. His green eyes are fully cat-like in this form.
• Cat
  Height: 12.5"
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Physical Description: A very healthy member of the feline species, sleek and fast, he looks like a silver Bengal cat in this form. If it wasn't for the two tails and knowing look in his eyes, he could be mistaken for any other ship cat. Perhaps better fed than most.

Traits

Hengeyokai Traits

• Dexterity Score increases by 2
• Change Form
• Bakeneko Traits
  • Intelligence Score increases by 1
  • Alley Cat - You gain proficiency in the Acrobatics skill
  • Hybrid Stealth - In your hybrid form you have advantage on Stealth checks

Ranger Traits

• Favored Enemy - Humanoids
  • +4 bonus to damage rolls with weapon attacks
  • Advantage on Survival checks to track favored enemy, as well as Int checks to recall information about them
• Natural Explorer
  • Ignore difficult terrain
  • Have Advantage on initiative rolls
  • On first turn of combat, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted.
  • When Traveling for an hour or more:
    • Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel
    • Your group cannot become lost except by magical means
    • If engaged in another activity while traveling (Foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger
    • If traveling alone you can move stealthily at a normal pace
    • When you forage, you find twice as much food
    • While tracking other creatures you also learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area
• Archery Fighting Style - +2 to attack rolls with ranged weapons
• Primeval Awareness
  • Innate ability to communicate with beasts. Learn it's emotional state, effected by magic, short-term needs, actions you can take to persuade it not to attack. Cannot be used on a creature you have attacked within the last 10 minutes
  • Determine if your favored enemy is nearby. 1 uninterrupted minute of concentration reveals if favored enemy is present within 5 miles, which favored enemy, their number, and general direction and distance from you in miles. You gain this information for all groups within range.
• Hunter's Prey Horde Breaker
  • Once on each turn when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon on a different creature if it is within 5' of the original target and within range.
• Extra Attack - Attack twice during an attack action
• Spellcasting
• Greater Favored Enemy - Elementals
  • Same benefits as Favored Enemy
  • Have Advantage on saving throws against spells and abilities used by Greater Favored Enemy

Feats

Sharpshooter

• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls
• Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover
• Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.

Spellcasting

Spell save DC: 13
Spell attack modifier: +5

Spells Known/Spell Slots

Spells Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
4	4	2	-	-	-

Known Spells:
1st Level: Cure Wounds, Hunter's Mark, Ensnaring Strike
2nd Level: Barkskin

Resources

Moneys: 120gp

Carried Equipment:

• Equipped: studded leather armor, Longbow and Quiver of arrows(17), hooded cloak, rapier
• Carried: Small carved stone of a cat's head with blue glass chip eyes (Luckstone), satchel, Short Bow, Book with all his adventures in it, ink bottle (1) and ink pen, Woodcarving tools

Stored Equipment:

• Arrows (20), 3 changes of regular clothes, 1 set of nice clothes, 3 ink bottles, Short Bow, Go board & pieces, 1gp worth of woodworking materials

Hero Points: 8

Lifestyle:

• Ship cat! (Sailor?)

Trinket:
A rectangular metal device with two tiny metal cups on one end that throws sparks when wet

On a particularly boring bounty hunt he had been contracted for, Renja was stalking a minor noble's son who had disappeared from his family estate. Most of the locals knew that the son was a lecherous brat and couldn't be roused to help the lord, so he had to contract the ship's captain to get help bringing his son back home. Renja had tracked the lech to a flourishing brothel along the highway not far out of town. Not feeling like surrounding himself with that kind of sneeze inducting odors, Renja decided to wait for the gigolo to get done slightly down the road within sight of the house of ill repute. Luck was not with him on this evening, as it started raining while he was waiting for the cad. Around the time Selûne should have been high in the sky, although she was obscured by storm clouds, Renja began hearing faint lightning sounds from nearby, or sparking. While not unusual in a storm, this sound was coming from the ground near him and not the sky. Following the sounds of faint crackling Renja discovered a small rectangular box, about the size of his palm, with two tiny cups at the end. The cups were what were making the crackling noise, as drops of rain would hit the cups they would spark electricity. Fascinated Renja scooped up the box and was going to examine it more when the lascivious lordling emerged from the den of iniquity, requiring him to finish his contract. He tucked the box into his pack and forgot all about it until he was unpacking his gear again on the ship. There he discovered that he could mix up his hunting game with the box, causing mild jolts to his stalking victims to accompany his outbursts. (He caught the lordling and delivered him to his father like a trussed up pig, in case you are curious.)

Weapons

Shortbow 1D6+3(+7) piercing range 80/320. +8
Longbow 1D8+3(7) piercing range 150/600. +8
Rapier 1D8+3(+7) piercing finesse. +6

Connections

I know these guys

• Ace-We worked on a mercenary team together to track down a wizard who stole the ship captain's spellbound. We developed a brotherly rivalry.
  
• Rafenas-We met during a Festival for the Dead where a necromancer tried to make herself a "Queen of the Dead", causing much chaos. We wound up helping each other escape the city and he followed me home.
  

Important "People"

• Smokey, Missy, Garf, Rincewind, Dash and Ursula - ship cats

Forms

Change Form You can transform to your Human Form, or Animal Form. Your Hybrid Form is considered your "true" form in which you have a humanoid body but the face of your animal. You can revert to your true form at will. Each form has a set appearance based on the individual (a hengeyokai cannot choose to take the shape or form of another person or animal in order to disguise himself).

Cat Form

Statistics for Cat Form

Hybrid Form

Human Form